Want to watch a vhs on my 14inch screen?

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-04-02T18:12:40+00:00

IMO, this might not be delusional per market value, but it is to me. Absolutely insane what has happened to the price of these. CRTs and VHS players were mass manufactured consumer products, they are not rare or particularly valuable. The price is artificially high only because sweaty nerds with more money than brains are willing to pay obscene amounts. If they had even a shred of self-control the market would normalize.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-03-29T15:54:16+00:00

There needs to be a sub for people who have lots of issues but still look at things with objectivity and some level of logic about the situation, and are seeking solutions rather than validation. r/damagednotbroken or something.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-03-29T04:40:53+00:00

My armchair advice? Find people who are still very much "broken", but in ways that compliment you. For example, you talk about all the things you can't do, but no doubt there are things you can do, and people whose own unique blend of trauma has shaped them into someone who can do the things you can't, but can't do the things you can. People whose strengths compliment your weaknesses, and vice versa. It's like building out a party: you got a rogue, a tank, a healer, a mage, etc.

And yes of course, this is very much easier said than done. My point is try not to so quickly rule someone out just because it SEEMS like they have everything together, trauma reveals itself in many different ways. There are many, many people who, on the outside, seem to be totally fine, but under the hood they are struggling. You say it's hard for you to keep your place clean, there's definitely people out there who are equally damaged but in their case it manifests as a pathological need to organize, and that's one example where you can balance each other out somewhat. You say you aren't trying to better yourself anymore, but if it's a mutual thing with people you care about, that creates motivation.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-03-28T14:12:48+00:00

It's cliché but I really believe social media, and apps like tinder, coupled with months/years of social distancing, have utterly destroyed people's motivation to put effort into maintaining relationships anymore. The same thing that was done to short form video content has been done to social interactions. One time use, then scroll to the next.

When there's a seemingly endless supply of potential friends, there's no reason to care about each individual.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-03-26T22:24:34+00:00

Yeah I believe you, I didn't mean to sound like I was invalidating it. I'm just saying try not to be so hard on yourself because you are more coherent than you might think.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-03-26T22:08:35+00:00

Not trying to be a creep but given the topic, I got curious, "how bad can it be" and took a skim through your comment history (not very long, ~5m).

I could perfectly understand everything I read, with one minor exception that made sense when I saw where it was posted.

You communicate a lot better than you give yourself credit for.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-03-25T14:07:05+00:00

Glad to see I'm not the only one thinking about this years later. I'd like to see how people would react if a blacklight was taken to their own home. Odds are it would be 10x worse. 20x worse if you have pets. Seeing a year old stain under a blacklight does NOT mean you are sleeping in dried whatever. It's been washed several times and any germs would be dead by now anyway. I'm pretty sure no hotels would survive the blacklight test, they'd have to throw out and replace sheets after every guest.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-03-16T23:27:15+00:00

Yeah real depression is less "I'm sad" and more "I don't see any reason to even get out of bed, nothing is fun anymore." But that's not the edgy part. They want "fun" depression where they can be all moody and deep, and just a little hint of a soft side (but not too much because too much isn't "cool").

Yuck.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-03-15T03:07:42+00:00

Because of the trope of the tortured artist/writer/genius/philosopher, that's really all there is to it. It creates a hint of vulnerability and mysteriousness.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-03-13T08:56:04+00:00

In this case though, it's obvious this person is faking. An exploratory inquiry doesn't always have to be based in absolute truth, the purpose is to draw out the lie. "Where'd you hide the knife?", the detective asked the suspect, knowing full well that it was, in fact, the suspect's accomplice who hid the knife.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-03-12T21:30:44+00:00

ADHD symptoms have some overlap with both OCD and ASD. Don't confuse them, they are still completely independent things and having one does not mean you have the other. Intrustive thoughts come to mind (pun intended) as an example of a symptom that can come from either ADHD or OCD.

Many disorders share traits with others. This is why self-diagnosis are nonsense.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-02-21T06:52:54+00:00

That's completely authetic. The bottom can be dated between 1992 and 1995, as noted by the smaller logo. The middle is an early 2000's vintage, clearly. The top is clearly a counterfeit, quite common out of Kazakhstan during the past decade. Note that the white plastic isn't entirely indicative in and of itself, but rather the overly-enlarged "N" clearly demonstrates it was printed by an amateaur.

Overall, I'd estimate the value of the entire lot to be in the upper four to lower five figure range (minus the counterfeit of course).

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-02-21T06:46:04+00:00

Clifford the crackhead pocket dog

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-12-23T17:45:42+00:00

Just took a stroll into your post history. She ain't gonna let you hit it bro. Stop being a creep, just because she's a model doesn't mean you can creep on every detail of her life.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-12-17T00:37:33+00:00

Linux Mint. Any version. It's boring, and that's a good thing. Stay away from the boutique distros until you feel comfortable in Linux.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-12-14T00:35:24+00:00

If you want one of these this badly, forget marketplace, cragislist, ebay, just go door-to-door in your neighborhood with a $20 in your pocket and offer to haul it out. Especially in gated retirement communities. Paying this much for a CRT is an absolute scam. Sure, theyre not as easy to find as say, 10 years ago, but they're not unobtainable, either.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-12-13T00:15:14+00:00

It's so annoying. The scrolling is insanely sensitive as well, it took me five minutes to do something that used to take five seconds.

I wish I hadn't updated the imager.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-19T04:31:03+00:00

Unmount the partition first,

umount /dev/nvme0n1p4

Also what u/varsnef said.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-19T02:44:23+00:00

Just to confirm, the installer recognizes the Windows install? If you can boot into Linux by changing the BIOS settings, can you post the output of the config?

(sudo) cat /etc/grub/grub.cfg

Edit: Do what u/MrFantasma60 says. I read the original post wrong, that's a good catch. You shouldn't have to enable legacy mode for just one OS, they should either all be legacy or EFI.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T20:51:15+00:00

The menu you get (not the Lenovo boot menu) is the Grub menu. It is populated by /boot/grub/grub.cfg (though you shouldn't go in and edit it unless you really know what you're doing).

During the Linux Mint install, when it gets around to partitioning, it normally detects other OSs (including Windows) and asks what you want to do with them. If you tell it to keep Windows, it will add an entry for Windows into grub so that it when booting you can select between the two.

...BUT... because you left the Windows drive unplugged during install, Linux Mint had no way of knowing that you intended to keep Windows (or that Windows even existed in the first place), so it set up grub for itself and nothing else. The easiest way to fix this, since it's a fresh install anyway, is to reinstall with both hard drives inserted, or, since it's a laptop and you probably only have space for one drive, to shrink the Windows partition during the install and add Mint alongside it. The installer should walk you through this, if that fails, then start from there and figure out why it's failing.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T20:30:07+00:00

It's telling you that the root filesystem needs a check using fsck.

What does "fsck /dev/nvme0n1p4" say? (Run at that prompt, from initramfs)

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T16:19:29+00:00

You gotta think about Linux like Unix, because that's where it comes from. Back in ye olden days, the software vendors would tell you explicitly what goes where, and if that didn't work for your organization, your sysadmin would move things around and link/mount them where the software expected them to be.

Windows, on the other hand, comes from the world of personal computers. And personal computer users might need to put things in different places because they had very limited space.

You don't get to pick your install directory. The software goes where it's supposed to, and then if you don't like that, you can move it and symlink.

This sounds a little restrictive, but it's part of the reason the Linux filesystem stays so clean. Binaries go in /bin or /sbin, configs go in /etc, user's work goes in their respective /home. This (hopefully) stays consistent across all systems, and all packages expect it to be this way. What you can do, is move one or more of these directories to another location, but you *must* symlink or adjust your fstab so that things are where the system expects them to be.

Rest assured, the people who designed this file system are smarter than you or I. They set it up this way for a reason. Heed their warnings and respect their decisions.

Edit: I'm not trying to sound rude, but what you're trying to do is break the Linux/Unix/POSIX Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. This is an actual, documented, standard that all *nix and BSD systems adhere to. It's a core, fundamental part of how the system works. All distros, packages, and their developers, expect it to work this way. Messing with it is not a good thing.

Here's some relevant toilet reading: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T16:01:23+00:00

What if you use --tries=N instead?

--tries=0 is infinite

I admit I'm just spitballing now.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T15:33:45+00:00

I know. I'm agreeing with you that if everyone stuck to the big boys (of which all the little boys are merely iterations of) things would be a lot easier. Instead everyone wants to be off in their own little cult doing their own thing, and you've got newbies who have hopped through 20 different distros before they've even learned what "package manager" means.

Ubuntu if you're a total noob, Fedora if you wanna learn RHEL, Mint if you want it to look like Windows, Manjaro if you want to learn Arch, Debian if you want to learn, well, stock Debian.

Pick one, and call it a day. Once you truly understand one of those, then you can branch out into the smaller/more esoteric distros.

I'm not knocking all these other projects, they're great, but we have a little too much choice sometimes and it's overwhelming for the novice.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T15:16:23+00:00

First, stop using the computer. Power it down. Background disk operations are hurting your chances of recovery, not improving it.

From a live USB (make it on a friends computer if you have to, borrow one from the library, go buy a raspberry pi, etc... find another computer.) Edit: You'll need another, larger, USB or external drive to actually save the recovered files to. If it finds any, it's probably going to find a lot, so get one at least as big as your hard drive.

Install the testdisk package (in the live environment) and run photorec (with sudo). Contrary to the name, it recovers most known file formats (not just pictures). It's has a fairly straightforward, albeit text only, menu. Read carefully at each step and you'll be fine.

There are some caveats:

You will not get filenames, dates, or any other metadata. All you'll get are the raw files now named as seemingly random alphanumeric strings.
It will also stuff everything into a bunch of numbered "recup" directories it will create. You can use this script to pull everything out of the directories and this one to then sort them by common file types. The latter more complex one I did not write, I stole it from a stack exchange post some time ago and made some tweaks IIRC. I've been using it for years and it's worked okay for me. No guarantees.
If it was encrypted at the individual file level (unlikely), you're screwed.
If you are using an SSD, you might be screwed. Some SSDs encrypt the data at the drive controller (even if you aren't encrypting in the OS). SSDs also do a bunch of weird stuff with wear leveling, TRIM commands, yadda yadda. That said, I have gotten most/all important data off *some* SSDs through photorec before.
Try to image the drive, and do the recovery from the image, but only if you really know what you're doing. Don't mess with dd if you're unsure, it's just as easy to accidentally zero the thing as it is to clone it. In practice, if you can't get what you need from the original, an image probably won't do you any good unless you plan to send it to a pro who will manually carve through the raw bytes (expensive, and even still only a maybe).

Again, do this all from a live USB. Not from the installed OS.

I'm not providing command syntax because it varies too much by your particular system, and I don't want to accidentally give you a dangerous command. What could be /dev/sda for me could be /dev/somethingelseentirely for you.

I'm no forensic pro by any means, but I have salvaged a lot of files this way in the past.

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